Well at least the laptop now sees the printer ... that is probably the hard part. I think you now have to read the Printing-HOWTO very carefully, and make sure your permissions are correct (always bite me in the past ;-)

Are you able to print anythng on the printer (ASCII text perhaps) ? Can you print as root ? My HP Deskjet did the same thing for awhile, turned out it was problems with the /etc/printcap file.

Good luck.

cheers,
Jim Parker

Sailboat racing is not a matter of life and death .... It is far more important than that !!!

Well, it's still doesn't work. I've added an options line in the /etc/modules.conf file specifying io=0x378 dma=3 irq=7. With lp reloaded, I see in the /proc/parport/0 that these options are set and that my printer is being seen. The syslog shows the following:

On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 08:51:14PM -0600, matthschulz wrote:
> In order to make plip working I had to load the parport_pc with
> io=0x378 irq=7.
>
> Since 1824 is something like bidirectional maybe You give it a shot?
>
>
> Matth
>
> On Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2001 18:50, Heather wrote:
> > > G'Day !
> > >
> > > I am not sure about this, I only use my parallel port for an old zip
> > > drive, and then not often enough ....
> > >
> > > There are 4 parallel port modules located in the /lib/modules/2.2.18/misc
> > > directory (parport.o, parport_pc.o, parport_probe.o, and paride.o).
> > > Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe they are dependent on each
> > > other. I would try to load various combinations of the above modules,
> > > till you can figure out the correct combinations.
> >
> > parport itself is the really incredibly core part. If you don't have that
> > nothing parallel will work, don't care which architecture you are.
> >
> > parport_pc is the usual PC style parallel ports. It's so named because
> > some arch's have their own types, but might have PC style ports on some
> > models. Alpha for example. In short, it's the "real" device driver and
> > you need that too, immediately after loading parport.
> >
> > Usually there will be notes in the modutils files about those two, so that
> > they'll tend to auto load.
> >
> > lp is the parallel print module. If you're not going to print - e.g.
> > laplink style cross connecting, zip drive from antiquity etc. - then you
> > won't need it. OTOH if you *do* want to print, you must have it, or there
> > won't be enough to notice good printer protocols going on.
> >
> > Other devices have their own protocols and for those things, you'd need
> > their protocol modules instead. Such as paride.
> >
> > > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Hope my expansion helps too :)
> >
> >
> > * Heather Stern * star@ many places...
>
>
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